Of course. Common sense prevails at all times. I live in the middle of bear country where city folk can be fined if they put their garbage out the day before pickup. I'm talking about "civilized" camping. But you are absolutely right to hand out this caution to those who are not as experienced with bears. I once watched a bear peel open an old Coleman metal cooler like a sardine can. It was pretty impressive. Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: <mcneely4@cox.net> To: "courtney hook" <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 5:35 AM Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Local travel while camping
> ---- courtney hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA> wrote: >> Exactly what I do too. So easy, and a no brainer. ;-) > > except in bear country, where the tent with its coolers and pots becomes > an attractant. Some NP and NF campsites in bear country have storage > safes (community, not individual campsites). mcneely > >> Courtney >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ian Clark" <ipclark@ROGERS.COM> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:49:38 PM >> Subject: Re: Local travel while camping >> >> When I arrive at a campsite, the first thing I do is set up a small tent. >> Then I set up the camper. Everything goes into the tent, coolers, bedding >> cookers, everything. When we want to go into town or exploring we just >> unpop the top and away we go. > > -- > David McNeely |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.